"The Daily Show has SMART people working for it. They REMEMBER previous statements by politicians and they are not afraid to show how the politicians contradict themselves."
And they have TiVo...
Personally, I don't watch real news, I just read the RSS feeds.
(Automatic) Tranny fluid is definitely red, and is not grease, and there's no valve. Automotive fluids are color coded; green is antifreeze (or tire Slime, FWIW). I just got back from perfoming a fluid and filter change, and can still smell the shit on my hands. The owner is _very_ happy with the results; Before = van goes for three moments, then doesn't. After = van goes and shifts better than when they bought it (used... er, pre-owned).
I have also replaced that fuse, and run that snake. "Just" a fuse is rare, except for in the case of a power surge (read 'lightning strike'); fuses blow for a reason, you've got to look for the cause (read 'short'), or you just go through fuses.
That hour at the computer/car/whatever shop is going to cost you as many as 12 hours at work (assuming an expensive shop and a low paying job), so it does make sense to spend some time getting caught up, because I'm sure you can think of a better way to spend/invest your money. That being said, I wouldn't call someone stupid because they got roped in by one of these scams (like Jiffy Lube), I'd just show them how so they can do/avoid it themselves, or in the case of the "I can'ts," let them know that I'll do it for half the price.
I can't believe I just read this: "I may not ever have the opportunity to use a wrench, or take a wrench to my car." Is this for real, or a 'for example'? Dude, I sort of agree with you on the basic computer skills class, except it should be required for graduation, not for internet access, but to me this puts you in the same group as the people that you express offense toward. (Please don't be offended, great-grandparent, I'm drinking.) If you have a car, buy a Haynes Repair Manual for it (16 to 25 dollars), and some tools as needed. Create the opportunity, and you might never go to a mechanic again. (I know that people who rent their homes often aren't allowed to work in their own driveways/parking lots, and that's the only reason I've ever been to the oil change place, but if I had to do it again, I'd have done it myself and told the super where he could stick it.)
That's all I've got for now, I hope it wasn't too bad, because like I said, I'm drinking.
"... My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks But it was obsolete before I opened the box You say you've had your desktop for over a week? Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight... " - It's All About The Pentiums, "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Running With Scissors," 1999
And if anyone's looking to get rid of said paperweight, I'm in the market.
If the network stayed up all month, and nobody had any problems printing, then he did his job just fine. This is one of the few slack-jobs I could approve of.
If you figure 70% on wednesday, than that only leaves 30% for the rest of the week. So, maybe 15% chance on thursday, 9% for friday, with the remainder getting the weekend to relax.
..seems to have way to much time on his hands. While it does make sense to classify the names of individuals or of battilions and whatnot, why is it a secret that, "Soldiers should fire into engine blocks before engaging the driver." Isn't that a duh? This kindof makes all that other blocked out text a little less interesting, doesn't it? I guess it makes sense not to give 'the enemy' any ideas, but the fact that "The attack density for the period 1 November 2004 to 12 March 2005 is 11.25 attacks per mile" doesn't seem to have much impact on national security... I'm asking for it, aren't I? Oh, well, at least I won't have to worry about holding on to my job anymore. Here's one more: "Soldiers are to control traffic effectively and efficiently, keep Soldiers safe, and accomplish the mission."
Somebody should tell them that shooting tires can be pretty effective against a high speed vehicle, especially if you take out both tires on one side.
StumbleUpon is great because you don't have to know or care where you're going. Just click 'Stumble!' and be somewhere else.
True that the stumbles can be dumb and do things like loop back on themselves, but I find that most of the Stumbles are not top domain. In fact, the problem I see is just the opposite. People will load up one picture and hit 'I like it!' or get halfway through something before thumbing up. So sometimes you find yourself driving to work at a slow speed.
The point of StumbleUpon is that when you've done checked your email, stocks, and motherboard prices, and you're sitting there going, "Now what?" (Yeah, yeah, some people never sit there and say, "Now, what?"), you can kill some time with the Stumbling, or the so-called "blogging," although the message size limit is a little skinny.
Something like del.icio.us, which I've never tried, so I'm talking out my sphincter, here, is more for when you have an idea what you want. Stumble is for when you just want something.
Note that the use of StumbleUpon may delay the discovery of iambored.com, but it is in there.
I've got this cup, from some fast food place. One of the crew "dropped" it into the fryer, the whole bottom shrunk and retracted, but the recycle logo survived. They didn't put it all the way in, so it's about a 12 OZ cup, now. Personally, I would imagine that every fryer in every fast food place has been abused in such a way, at one time or another. "Hey, why don't we drop a whole burger in, man?"
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"The Daily Show has SMART people working for it. They REMEMBER previous statements by politicians and they are not afraid to show how the politicians contradict themselves."
And they have TiVo...
Personally, I don't watch real news, I just read the RSS feeds.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the millions of database queries or the [unofficially reported] triple redundancy.
I have also replaced that fuse, and run that snake. "Just" a fuse is rare, except for in the case of a power surge (read 'lightning strike'); fuses blow for a reason, you've got to look for the cause (read 'short'), or you just go through fuses.
That hour at the computer/car/whatever shop is going to cost you as many as 12 hours at work (assuming an expensive shop and a low paying job), so it does make sense to spend some time getting caught up, because I'm sure you can think of a better way to spend/invest your money. That being said, I wouldn't call someone stupid because they got roped in by one of these scams (like Jiffy Lube), I'd just show them how so they can do/avoid it themselves, or in the case of the "I can'ts," let them know that I'll do it for half the price.
I can't believe I just read this: "I may not ever have the opportunity to use a wrench, or take a wrench to my car." Is this for real, or a 'for example'? Dude, I sort of agree with you on the basic computer skills class, except it should be required for graduation, not for internet access, but to me this puts you in the same group as the people that you express offense toward. (Please don't be offended, great-grandparent, I'm drinking.) If you have a car, buy a Haynes Repair Manual for it (16 to 25 dollars), and some tools as needed. Create the opportunity, and you might never go to a mechanic again. (I know that people who rent their homes often aren't allowed to work in their own driveways/parking lots, and that's the only reason I've ever been to the oil change place, but if I had to do it again, I'd have done it myself and told the super where he could stick it.)
That's all I've got for now, I hope it wasn't too bad, because like I said, I'm drinking.
"... ...
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight
"
- It's All About The Pentiums, "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Running With Scissors," 1999
And if anyone's looking to get rid of said paperweight, I'm in the market.
What about the Speed of Lint?
If the network stayed up all month, and nobody had any problems printing, then he did his job just fine. This is one of the few slack-jobs I could approve of.
If you figure 70% on wednesday, than that only leaves 30% for the rest of the week. So, maybe 15% chance on thursday, 9% for friday, with the remainder getting the weekend to relax.
..seems to have way to much time on his hands. While it does make sense to classify the names of individuals or of battilions and whatnot, why is it a secret that, "Soldiers should fire into engine blocks before engaging the driver." Isn't that a duh? This kindof makes all that other blocked out text a little less interesting, doesn't it? I guess it makes sense not to give 'the enemy' any ideas, but the fact that "The attack density for the period 1 November 2004 to 12 March 2005 is 11.25 attacks per mile" doesn't seem to have much impact on national security... I'm asking for it, aren't I? Oh, well, at least I won't have to worry about holding on to my job anymore. Here's one more: "Soldiers are to control traffic effectively and efficiently, keep Soldiers safe, and accomplish the mission." Somebody should tell them that shooting tires can be pretty effective against a high speed vehicle, especially if you take out both tires on one side.
And good riddance, I say.
The free Karma is an April Fools joke, it'll all turn into negatives tomorrow.
StumbleUpon is great because you don't have to know or care where you're going. Just click 'Stumble!' and be somewhere else.
True that the stumbles can be dumb and do things like loop back on themselves, but I find that most of the Stumbles are not top domain. In fact, the problem I see is just the opposite. People will load up one picture and hit 'I like it!' or get halfway through something before thumbing up. So sometimes you find yourself driving to work at a slow speed.
The point of StumbleUpon is that when you've done checked your email, stocks, and motherboard prices, and you're sitting there going, "Now what?" (Yeah, yeah, some people never sit there and say, "Now, what?"), you can kill some time with the Stumbling, or the so-called "blogging," although the message size limit is a little skinny.
Something like del.icio.us, which I've never tried, so I'm talking out my sphincter, here, is more for when you have an idea what you want. Stumble is for when you just want something.
Note that the use of StumbleUpon may delay the discovery of iambored.com, but it is in there.
I've got this cup, from some fast food place. One of the crew "dropped" it into the fryer, the whole bottom shrunk and retracted, but the recycle logo survived. They didn't put it all the way in, so it's about a 12 OZ cup, now. Personally, I would imagine that every fryer in every fast food place has been abused in such a way, at one time or another. "Hey, why don't we drop a whole burger in, man?"
...to get to Seasoned Professional is through Unqualified Amateur.
All the interesting bits of the internet will be a cross between bittorrent, boinc, and stumbleupon.